Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

eACetienl SET OF teetn, All uOuDle, VIII WHICH
he can easily, it is said, crack walnut, bite
a tWo-penny nail IN two, or lift a quarter OF
beef
WHEN sleeping a rat rolls himself up into
ball and places his nose down between his
hind legs; he curls his tail around the out
side OF his body; no part Of him projecting
but his two delicate ears, which are adapted
for catching every sound.
OSwALDUS NoTHINGERoUs is SAID to have
made 1900 dishes of turned ivory, all perfect
and complete in every part. yet so thin and
slender that all OF them were included at once
in a cup turned out of a pepper corn of the
common size. They were so small as to be
almost invisible to the eye. They were pre-
sented to Pope Paul V.
GEN. BoULANGER has been recently pre-
sented with picture. executed by NJ. Frichot
in lS46, representing the return of the re-
mains of Napoleon l. from St. Helena. 1t has
been handed over officially to the governor of
the Hotel DIES Invalides, and will figure among
the other relics of he Corsicaa COnqueror de-
posted in that establishment
AN milan boy, in reading a report Of
school he had once taught. came with a
troubled face to his teacher and asked her to
read to him a certain sentence in which he
was reported as having ION anaYerage 1917
pupils" In his school. She thought the word
average" was his stumbling block, and was
going on to explain that, when he Interrupted
had that IN my school,"
WITH regard to glacier ice, curious spec
ulation has recently been made, according to
which the Aletsch glacier, situated between
the Jungfrau and the valley of the Haute
RhoDe, II 1t were cut into blocks of the size OF
the Paris Bourse, and these blocks were put
side by side, would furnish sufficient ice %
form double ring round the earth along tn,
equator. Most of the Swiss glaciers are far
| too difficult OF access to make 1t probable that
| they should ever be utilized for Industrial
| purposes.
BRAZIL has 5,597 miles OF railroad. The
Argentine Republic has 1894 miles, Of which
nearly half is controlled by the State and
| the province of Buenos Ayres the rest being
! owned by private companies. Bolivia has %
| miles or railroad, chill, ,377. Of the Chill
| ian railways. the State controls rather more
than one third. The railways of the United
| States of Colombia are 40 miles in length,
! and are controlled By private compan es.
| Paraguay has 45 miles of railroad and Peru
| 1850, Uruguay 270, and Venezuela 372 miles.
DR.. WILLIAM PERRY, of Exeter, N. H.,
who died recently at the age of SO. was said
to be the last survivor of the party which
made the experimental trip with Fulton on
| his first steamboat, but it seems that one of
the party is still alive, Col. George L. Per
! kins, of Norwich, Conn.,. who, at 9S, ia the
| Treasurer Of the Norwich and Worcester
| railroad. Col. Perkins walked most OF the
| distance from Norwich to Poughkeepsie in
| his eagerness to see the wonderful invention,
and he made the passage to New York on the
| boat. The ClermOnt, he says, was as much
| ike balloon as modern steamer.
DIR. LEM has at last arrived at Zanzibar,
having taken less than eighteen months to
cross the African continent from the mouth
of the Congo. at will be remem bered," says
Nature, "that DR.. LEM went out for the pur-
pose, If possible, of reaching Emn Pasha and
! DR.. Junker. From Zanzibar the late DR.,
! Fischer started through Nasal Land on a sim
| liar errand. In both cases the object has not
| been accomplished. ana no wonder, now that
| we know the real facts. Much good wor6,
! however. has been done by both men. DR..
Lenz Is man OF scientific training and eXpe
| rience In African travelling and there can be
| no doubt that the results Of his just compile
| ted journey will be a gam to science. 1t is
| possible that Mr.. Stanley may meet with DR..
| LEM on his way TO Zanzibar, and If SO may
| obtain some Information that will be of SER
| vice on his great expedition"
A CORRESPONDENT writes to the New York
| Post: "a quotation in your excellent paper
of this date from the San Francisco Chronicle
! surprises me no little. 1t contends that the
| Camela Japonica is tender plant and will
| not stand cold or frost This is a mistske
Nearly every lawn in Augusta, Ga, is bean
| tilted by this peerless towering shrub or tree,
| the only protection ever given being light
| canvas awning, and have seen them In full
| bloom when the ground was covered with
| snow. The grandest tree tCamelia) | have
ever seen was in abe yard of the orphan
| asylum there. with as many as 2, 800 full
| blown flowers on it at once. thousand dol
| lars was offered for the tree, which was forty
| feet high and fully eighteen inches In dame
ter near the roots. Evidently even the ne lple
OF the glorious climate of California" have
| something to learn from the people of the
| South about tree culture"
| IN letter received by a young lady at
| Waukesha, Wis, from Gen. F. E. Spinner.
dated Pablo Beach, Fla, Jan. %, he saws:
| ''Since last wrote You 1 have suffered dread
| fully from inflammatory rheumatism ana
| rheumatic fever, but am now aDle to walk nv
mile on this delightful beach without PAIN or
| fatigue. Yesterday. the 2lst, was the ami
versary of my birthday. | am now IS years
old. and 1t is my prayer that your life may be
| as long and as happy one as mine has been
| Please forgive me this egotlsm and l will
| agree never to lnfiict my age or my ailings on
| you again If live to be a thousand years old,
| In answer to your question: How many Won
| ders have been added to the seven ancient
wonders of the world" will say; The Sus-
| pension Bridge, Bartholdi's Statue OF Liberty
| Enlightening the World, the Suez Canal the
| electric light, the sewing machine, The rail-
| roads and the Democratic party. the lat ter
| beating all others, for it has as many lives as
cat"
WHEN Ruskin ventured into politics and
economy the Philistines had him for their
own. He soberly proposed to divide off the
kingdom into groups of 100 families each, with
bishop to render an account of each indi-
vidual in the group. The detonatIon of a
krupp gun in West ninster Abbey could MOI
| have been more startling than the grave
assertion OF work for bishop in q State
church. Ruskin insisted that the bishop
| should be at once pastor and bographer, rem
derng unto the central state authority an
annual written statement of the principal
events in the life Of each family. lie would
| have higher executive officers TO enforce or
mitigate the general laws by which the entire
| public should contribute to the cost
and share the profits of general ienter-
| prise. HIS scheme of individual labor
was vague Socialism. lie would
! limit property and income, Withdrawing
| from money making every man who had
| amassed a certain total of money From this
| experienced and no longer selfish class he
would draw members of Parliament This
was a. startling rs the proposal to make
bishops work. The other features and the
many fantastic details of his ideal state IL
would be needless to recaptulate. His ideal
state was no more preposCerous than the re-
public of Plato, no less beautiful than the
Utopia of Sir Thomas More. But its delinea-
ton inspired the chorus of commentators to
pronounce him an immoral lunatic "A iudg-
ment generally acquiesced in IN the yery
haunts where Plato Is held to be one OF the
wisest and sir Thomas More one OF the best
of mankind.
THERE are comparatively few people who
know the origin or meaning OF the term
yankee" by which we are accustomed more
or less anectionately to designate our Ameri-
can cousins born In the United States. In
view OF the approaching American kxnibl-